- Changed how KMS v2 encryption at rest can generate data encryption keys.

`system:masters` built-in super-powers / break-glass Group that can bypass RBAC. Before this change, the default `admin.conf` was bound to `system:masters` Group, which was undesired. Executing `kubeadm init phase kubeconfig all` or just `kubeadm init` will now generate the new `super-admin.conf` file. The cluster admin can then decide to keep the file present on a node host or move it to a safe location. `kubadm certs renew` will renew the certificate in `super-admin.conf` to one year if the file exists; if it...

*   Code generation for CRD and User API server types is improved with the addition of two new scripts to k8s.io/code-generator: `generate-groups.sh` and `generate-internal-groups.sh`. ([#52186](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/52186),[ @sttts](https://github.com/sttts))

- Kubeadm: graduated the `NodeLocalCRISocket` feature gate to beta and enabed it by default. When its enabled, kubeadm will:
    1. Generate a `/var/lib/kubelet/instance-config.yaml` file to customize the `containerRuntimeEndpoint` field in per-node kubelet configurations.

* kubeadm 1.8 now properly handles upgrades from to 1.7.x to newer release in 1.7 branch ([#53338](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/53338), [@kad](https://github.com/kad))
* Add generate-groups.sh and generate-internal-groups.sh to k8s.io/code-generator to easily run generators against CRD or User API Server types. ([#52186](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/52186), [@sttts](https://github.com/sttts))

- Omit enum declarations from the static openapi file captured at https://git.k8s.io/kubernetes/api/openapi-spec. This file is used to generate API clients, and use of enums in those generated clients (rather than strings) can break forward compatibility with additional future values in those fields. See https://issue.k8s.io/109177 for details. ([#109178](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/109178), [...

- Add support to generate client-side binaries for windows/arm64 platform ([#104894](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/104894), [@pacoxu](https://github.com/pacoxu))

- Kubeadm: remove the deprecated `--csr-only` and `--csr-dir` flags from `kubeadm init phase certs`. Deprecate the same flags under `kubeadm certs renew`. In both the cases the command `kubeadm certs generate-csr` should be used instead. ([#102108](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/102108), [@neolit123](https://github.com/neolit123))

- ServiceOwnsFrontendIP shouldn't report error when the public IP doesn't match ([#102516](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/102516), [@nilo19](https://github.com/nilo19)) [SIG Cloud Provider]
- Switch scheduler to generate the merge patch on pod status instead of the full pod ([#103133](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/103133), [@marwanad](https://github.com/marwanad)) [SIG Scheduling]

- kubeadm: added the feature gate `NodeLocalCRISocket`. When the feature gate is enabled, kubeadm will generate the `/var/lib/kubelet/instance-config.yaml` file to customize the `containerRuntimeEndpoint` field in the kubelet configuration for each node and will not write the same CRI socket on the Node object as an annotation. ([#128031](https://github.c...